Why does every advert look the same? Corporate Memphis
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#2Trends are trendy, film at 11.
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#3The name refers to how it resembles the work of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis_Group
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#4The name refers to how it resembles the work of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis_Group
Thanks for answering the most obvious question anyone would have about this phenomenon that was inexplicably totally missing from the article itself.
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#5“It really boils my piss to be honest,” says Jack Hurley, a Leeds-based illustrator who says his main output is “daft seaside posters.”
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#6Reminds me of this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFb7BOI_QFc
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#8From a technical perspective I enjoy using graphics that are able to be rendered as a SVG. I believe that is why this style has taken off, it is able to be served and rendered with regard to performance. The article presents it as a change made by Apple, but it was really the frontend that pushed visuals like this.
I support redesigns every three years and have stopped recommending the faceless images that is Memphis Group. Trends are great, regular work to purge trends is even better.
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#9Really you should blame the popularity of SVG graphics
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#10Trends are trendy, film at 11.
So maybe one tenth of one percent of marketing people have an original idea in their heads. This is nothing new.